This recipe uses up leftover cauliflower cheese or broccoli cheese / cheesy veg bake to make gorgeous cheesy pasties. When I was little I remember loving cheese and vegetable pasties from Coopland’s and these just remind of them!

Simply save a few spoonfuls when you have made cauliflower cheese, chill in the fridge and then make these yummy pastys with ready made puff pastry. They make a great snack, lunch or dinner with chips and gravy!

Ingredients:

Small bowlful of leftover cauliflower / broccoli cheese.

1 roll of puff pastry

Splash of milk

Method:

1) Preheat the oven to 185* (Fan 175*). Cut your pastry roll into squares / rectangles however big you want your pasties to be. I made two giant pasties and two smaller pasties.

2) Add a spoonful of filling to the middle of each pasty.

3) Add a splash of milk to a small glass and use a brush to paint around the edge of each pastry square (where you will seal the pasty).

4) Fold the pastry over the filling and crimp the edges together to seal the filling in the middle. You can do this with your fingers (like me) or be posh and use a fork. Don’t worry too much about how they look as they tend to look OK when they puff up even if they look messy when they go in!

5) Lightly flour a baking tray (this stops them sticking and stops the bottoms being greasy) and place your pasties on the tray.